2025-05-16

Board members: Justin Colannino,  Carlo Piana, Tracy Hinds,  Gael Blondelle, Thierry Carrez, Anne-Marie Scott, Chris Aniszczyk, Catharina Maracke, Josh Berkus, McCoy Smith, Ruth Suehle

Guests: Stefano Maffulli  

Regrets: Sayeed Choudhury – joined at 9:05 US pacific time

Quorum: reached at 8:05 US Pacific Time

Tracy welcomes the board and calls the meeting to order. 

Motion:  Tracy moves to approve the minutes of previous board meeting
Second: Anne-Marie seconds

Justin abstains.

All others approve

Stefano mentions the Policy team update that was shared with the board earlier. He emphasizes the huge amount of work done by the Policy team both in the EU and in the US. Justin praises that Jordan and Katie are both doing a great job, with a deep understanding of both open source topics and of the policy ecosystem. 

Stefano presents the Post-OSAID v1 report by Proteus research. They interviewed key stakeholders and concluded with a few key recommendations. 

The board discusses the results of the study and the next steps and concludes that the ED and the board need to study the results more before taking further actions. 

Stefano and Chris present the status of the Board development committee. 

Catharina leaves the meeting from 8:56 to 9:03 US PT as the rest of the board discusses the expiration of her elected seat in October.

Justin leaves the meeting at 9:15 US PT.  

The board development committee is working on the establishment of advisory councils that can become avenues where affiliates, sponsors, and even to some extent individuals, can have stronger links with the OSI. 

Stefano presents the operation update:

  • In term of CRM, we stick to CIVI CRM and moving to a new hosting capabilities. We will clean the database before migrating.

The board discussed dates and locations for the next in-person meeting.

Stefano presented the financial update and upcoming events.

We also launched a new virtual event: Deep Dive: Data Governance, on Oct 1-3. CFP at https://opensource.org/datagovernanceconf

Recap of Committees members: 

  • License Committee (Josh, Carlo, Justin, McCoy, Pam)
  • Policy and Standards Committee (Carlo, Catharina, Justin, Ruth)
  • Finance Committee (encouraged to attend) (Anne-Marie, Catharina, Tracy, Ruth, Gaël)
  • Board Development committee (Chris, Carlo, Anne-Marie, Tracy, Josh)

The board wants to call for external experts to join the License Committee and support with license reviews. 

Meeting is adjourned at 10:03 US pacific time.